三人行，必有我师(焉)

语法
Directional complements 上/下，来/去，起来
https://mandarinbean.com/the-directional-complement-5/
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Direction_complement

词汇
票价, ticket price; 邮票, postage stamp ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我想起来了, I've figured it out
只有不怕死才能活下去, you can only go on living if you don't fear death
直播之后民众都平静了下来, since the livestream the people have calmed down
[no 票 of this kind]

Me:
我好不容易让他去看医生，以后他的症状好起来了些。
去冲绳的票价太贵了吧，并且我不想要去游泳。

语法
More directional complements
https://mandarinbean.com/extended-uses-of-the-directional-complement-3/
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Direction_complement

词汇
浪费, waste (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
把你的面具摘下来, take off your mask
连老楚都能猜出个七八成的, even Lao Chu can guess pretty closely
你真是的干妈，这么浪费呀？这不是浪费，是浪漫, what are you doing, wasting so much [money]? this isn't waste, it's romance

Me:
你又忘了锁上门，小心一点。
我们需要降低浪费。

语法
S + 看起来像 + N "look like something/someone" (middle of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Comparing_%22kanqilai%22_and_%22kanlai%22

词汇
原来, original; 原因, reason ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
虽然平时冰冷冷的，看起来像个大冰棍，一有什么问题突然变得的那么可靠, although he is normally cold and looks like a big icicle, when there's a problem he suddenly becomes very dependable
看起来就像是个普通的小镇, it looks like an ordinary small town
我查不出他失眼的原因, I can't find the reason for his blindness

Me:
那个发型很好，你看起来像个女演员。
这是原来的做法。

语法
V + 起来, "bring X together," physically or metaphorically
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Advanced_uses_of_direction_complement_%22-qilai%22

词汇
入口, entrance; 进入, enter; 收入, income ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
先把你的英雄梦收起来好不好, first put away your heroic dreams, okay?
在这个时刻只有大家团结起来才有一线生机, the only way we can survive at this time is for us all to come together.
我们进入虫洞之后到底发生什么了, just what happened after we went into the wormhole?

Me:
她喜欢存起来所有的他的照片。
入口是这里，请进。

今天都是二百五的。

语法
V + 着 + V + 着 + 就 + (new SV) + 了, "upon doing X for ages, Y happened"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Using_%22zhe%22_when_%22verbing_away%22

词汇
起飞, take off (as in airplanes, not clothes); 想起, call to mind ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
[no 着...着]
只要在给她一点刺激她会想起一切的, you just need to give her a little more stimulus and she'll recall everything
迷迷糊糊想起了这句话, I vaguely remember that sentence

Me:
我在床上看着看着书，就这样睡着了。
飞机的起飞非常延迟了。

语法
还是 + V for something like "even so it happened..." (middle of page) I find this very unintuitive, especially as 还是 has a zillion meanings...
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Continuation_with_%22hai%22

词汇
起, arise/start; also 起床, get up (in the morning), 起来, get up/verb complement, 一起, together, 对不起, sorry ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Link to introductory grammar, day 15

Guardian:
她和我约定了会照顾我一辈子，可奶奶终究还是老了, Grandma promised me to look after me my whole life, but she got old even so
你的脚应该没事，起来吧, your foot should be fine, get up.
就算您把话说得再不明不白，可您还是我的救命恩人啊, no matter how hard it is to understand you (?), you're still my savior.

Me:
我知道我不该再吃一块巧克力，可我还是吃完了。
他起床的时候，喝杯咖啡才能说人话。